It was problematic because it was not possible to install the updates from WU.
Later a better method fas made available and needed just a single registry entry and few commands to install the unpatched MCE packages.
In vista and later the matter looks more complicated.
Maybe using the old tool switch one can convert a server machine to desktop and use the desktop package as they are and then convert back the OS to server. Then the so-called kernel protection should be taken into account…
I suppose things will improve with Windows 10